Visual memories
Memories of going to the pictures.
Cathedral Square after dark and under snow, the crowd outside the Regent, the night the Regent burned in 1979 and the Savoy's last years — photographs from the Allied Media collection.
Christchurch Star / Allied Media, via Christchurch City Libraries (Canterbury Stories) · ccl-cs-4308 · archive record
Christchurch Star / Allied Media, via Christchurch City Libraries (Canterbury Stories) · ccl-cs-4235
Christchurch Star / Allied Media, via Christchurch City Libraries (Canterbury Stories) · ccl-cs-4383
Christchurch Star / Allied Media, via Christchurch City Libraries (Canterbury Stories) · ccl-cs-35169 · archive record
Christchurch Star / Allied Media, via Christchurch City Libraries (Canterbury Stories) · ccl-cs-4688 · archive record
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Photograph 1 of 5: Crowd in Cathedral Square, 1960
11 album images shown
Chapter one
The square, after dark, and under snow.
Cathedral Square was where the night out began and ended: the crowd outside the Regent building, the tram lines at night, snow on the pavement, and the buildings that framed the walk to the pictures.
Clarendon Tower above the Worcester Street frontage.
Christchurch Star / Allied Media, via Christchurch City Libraries (Canterbury Stories) · ccl-cs-2328
A centennial thanksgiving service filling Cathedral Square.
Christchurch Star / Allied Media, via Christchurch City Libraries (Canterbury Stories) · ccl-cs-4198
Chapter two
The night the Regent burned.
On the night of 5 November 1979 fire gutted the Regent auditorium. Firefighters worked inside the building; by daylight the foyer, the seating and the roof were photographed as a record of the damage.
The fire-damaged foyer of the Regent Theatre, 1979.
Christchurch Star / Allied Media, via Christchurch City Libraries (Canterbury Stories) · ccl-cs-35170 · archive record
Two firefighters hosing down the Regent Theatre during the 1979 fire.
Christchurch Star / Allied Media, via Christchurch City Libraries (Canterbury Stories) · ccl-cs-35171 · archive record
Burnt seating and collapsed material inside the Regent Theatre after the 1979 fire.
Christchurch Star / Allied Media, via Christchurch City Libraries (Canterbury Stories) · ccl-cs-35172 · archive record
Fire hoses and firefighters inside the Regent Theatre during the 1979 fire.
Christchurch Star / Allied Media, via Christchurch City Libraries (Canterbury Stories) · ccl-cs-35173 · archive record
The Regent Theatre's fire-damaged roof structure, 1979.
Christchurch Star / Allied Media, via Christchurch City Libraries (Canterbury Stories) · ccl-cs-35174 · archive record
Chapter three
The Savoy's last years.
The Savoy Centre frontage with Savoy One and Savoy Two above it, the north-east corner of the square beside Warner's Hotel, and the demolition of the former cinema in 1997.
The Savoy Centre frontage in Cathedral Square, with Savoy One and Savoy Two above the shops.
Christchurch Star / Allied Media, via Christchurch City Libraries (Canterbury Stories) · ccl-cs-3814
The former Savoy Cinema during demolition.
Christchurch Star / Allied Media, via Christchurch City Libraries (Canterbury Stories) · ccl-cs-4687
The north-east corner of Cathedral Square, 1997, where the Savoy stood beside Warner's Hotel.
Christchurch Star / Allied Media, via Christchurch City Libraries (Canterbury Stories) · ccl-cs-4690 · archive record
The north-east corner of Cathedral Square, with the Savoy frontage beside Warner's Hotel.
Christchurch Star / Allied Media, via Christchurch City Libraries (Canterbury Stories) · ccl-cs-4686
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About the photographs
16 photographs are shown: 11 in the album and 5 in the opening carousel. Every one is credited to the Christchurch Star / Allied Media, via Christchurch City Libraries (Canterbury Stories), with its catalogue ID.